eskimos

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eskimos

Smiler's bones

2005
Presents a fictionalized account of the life of Minik, a Polar Eskimo taken by explorer Robert Peary, along with Minik's father, Smiler, and four others, to be presented as exhibits to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Unseen companion

2003
In rural Alaska in 1969, the lives of several teenagers come together while trying to find out what happened to a sixteen-year-old boy who is missing.

Julie of the wolves

1997
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

Caribou Girl

1998
In northern Alaska an Eskimo girl is transformed into a caribou and travels with the herd in order to save her human family from starvation.

In a different light

growing up in a Yup'ik Eskimo village in Alaska
1996
A study of the contemporary Yup'ik culture in an Alaskan village as seen through the eyes of a typical family.

Inunguak, the Greenland boy

1990
The other Inuit boys ridicule little Inunguak, who cannot hunt and spends all his time listening to his grandfather's old stories of the People, until bad times come to Greenland and the stories become useful.

The vanishing arctic

1997
Photographs and text provide information about the traditional lifestyles of five distinct groups of native peoples who live in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic.

The boy and his sled dog

2010
A brief, simplified retelling of the episode in "The Jungle Book" in which Quiquern tries to save his village during a snowstorm by setting out on a dog sled to search for food.

Very last first time

2002
Eva, a little Inuit girl in northern Canada, is relieved to be home after gathering mussels on the frozen seafloor alone for the very first time.

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